Typical stores in Amsterdam and the Netherlands

Amsterdam has been a shopper's paradise since the Dutch Golden Age. Below you'll find an overview of the most well-known stores of Amsterdam and the Netherlands.

HEMA

www.hema.nl
Dutch department store with favourable prices that offers everything from homeware to clothing, office supplies to sausages (rookworst). The Hema is Holland's best kept secret. It is how most Dutch people would like to see themselves. It is reasonable, easygoing, fair, thrifty and classless, based on rationality and clarity. The Hema prides itself on brining high standards of design to a mass public. And to a large degree it succeeds.

Daily street market

Must-see shopping

Fun Shopping

An alternative route through the Jordaan, an old working-class district which is known for its narrow streets and canals, along which you will find many tiny specialised shops, as well as pubs and restaurants.